POETRY IN VOICE CONTEST! All CW11 students will be trying out for the Poetry in Voice contest. As such, you can start researching poems that you would like to read...please check out the Poetry in Voice website for specifics and rules. Timeline: Term 1:
you will be choosing a poem from the site.
We will spend 10 min per day working on your poem.
No 2 students can do the same poem. First come, first served...so let me know the poem you want to do and I will post it up here on this page so that others cannot choose it.
Everyone will perform their poem on the same day. If you are absent, you won't get a kick at the school competition. *If absent, you will still be required to perform on another day because the classroom competition is for marks
February 4/5 will be our school competition. Feb 4: Block F and Feb 5: Block B. You will need to learn one poem for class. If you win, you will be need to choose another poem for the school competition. If you win the school competition, you will need to choose another poem for the Nationals.
The National competition: in March we will have chosen a student to represent our school
The National competition is in April
POEMS: Bofeng: * "Up-Hill" by Christina Rossetti Poem 2:
All CW11 students will be trying out for the Poetry in Voice contest.
As such, you can start researching poems that you would like to read...please check out the Poetry in Voice website for specifics and rules.
Timeline:
Term 1:
POEMS:
Bofeng:
* "Up-Hill" by Christina Rossetti
Poem 2:
Timmy:
*"When Winter Comes" by Majorie Pickthall.
Poem 2:
Willem:
* "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" by Emily Dickenson
"Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickenson
Yuri:
* "I am the People, the Mob" by Carl Sandburg
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Lucy:
* "Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith
"Solitude" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Jessica:
"The Blue Guitar" by P.K. Page
"Mixed Tape" by Katherena Vermette.
Vannavee:
* "Echolalia" by Ian Williams
"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe
John:
* "I am" by John Clare
"The Dead" by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE
Erin:
* "Full Moon" by Elinor Wylie
"A Dream Within a Dream" Edgar Allan Poe
Evelyn:
* " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson.
"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Salma:
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
"Self-Portrait" by Robert Creeley
Edwin:
*"Rondeau" by Leigh Hunt
"What Horror Awake" by Lorine Niedecker
Aneesa:
*" Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes" by Thomas Gray
"From Correspondences" by Anne Michaels
Jay:
* "The Chimney Sweeper: A Little Black Thing Among Snow" by William Blake
"Boy Remembers in the Field by Ray Knister
Anais:
* "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae
" A boat beneath a sunny sky" by Lewis Carroll.
Bhavjot:
*Reluctance by Robert Frost.
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
David:
* "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
"At the Center" by Afua Cooper
Austin:
* "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Adam Posed" by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Thomas:
*Barter" by Sarah Teasdale
"Headwinds" by Tomasz Rózycki